Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1890 — Page 2

©he democrat ÜBJOATLHaTIirD. M. BLACKBURN, - - - Publishes. CAUGHT FROM THE WIRE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. The Sioux Indians Again on the WarPath— Bold Robbery at Tipton, Ind.— Strange Finding of a Dead Man—The Great Showman, P. T. Barnum, Hying— Fatal Ex plosion—lmportant Decision. INDIAN TROUBLES. The Sioux are Again on the Warpath. . Grand Forks (N. D.) Special Adjutant General Devoy received a telegram from Governor Miller at Bismarck, requesting him to report at the latter city immediately and make active preparations for suppressing the impending outbreak of Indians at Mandan. Word was brought by a friendly. Indian to Mandan that the Hiouxt'were on the war-path and ready for an outbreak. The city is excited over the report, and any number of volunteers are already offering their services to gerund light '-Big Injun." A mass citizens, in Mandan was held to discuss the Indian situation. - Citizens have organized for protection.. Gov. Miller was telegraphed for arms and ammunition, and he has] given instructions to the* Adjutant General to use his discretion; The State has about five hundred stand of arms and 50,0( 0 rounds of lixed ammunition. AU sorts of. rumors are afloat. Telegrams o Standing Rock are unanswered, and the latest rumors are that a band of armed Indians has left the reservation. Settlers from every direction come in reporting insults received from predatory bands of -Indians armed to the teet i. who make circles around the tops of their heads. The citizens of Mandan have, practieally’no arms and are helpless. During the past few days the <ntire community was terrorized. They Have peen looking for aid from the G< v-„ expecting the Indians to qjine. upon them every hour, and no help or sign of help comes. The Indians went into a hardware store and called for ammunition. to shoot white "men. t hey said. Strange Finding of a Dead Man. A man named Trnmbo. living near Fostoria, Ohio, found in his barnyard a well dressed -man, dead with a bulletin, his brain. The murdered man is aboijt forty yetfrs -of age, heavy* black ■>. moustache. black hair, slight!v sprinkled with gray, on one arm was tattooed a woman’s picture and on the other, the .nitials ”W. L. C.” and looks as though he were an iron worker. In his pOitket was found a piece of paper with the ad-dress-of **A. Jenkins, Goodland, Newton County.” Another with the name ■Nellie-Meyers, Leesburg. Ind." and a piece of a Toledo price current of November 7; on the back of which was wrftteh,’ d’Augnsta." He had nothing else in his pockets but a piece of tobacco and a few trinkets. He was seen in a cigar store the night before with a watch and chain and.a good roll of money; v / Fatal Explosion. TA terrible boiler explosion And loss of . ii’e occurred at the cooper works of Trexler & Bro., at Merzetown, Pa., caused,it is said,by a defective boiler. The killed are? Charles Oswald, Henry Epler and Sausman Hilbert. Four •’ others were badiy injured. The boiler was thirty feet long and was torn, in three pieces, one of which, twenty-three feet long, was hurled a distance of 150 yards. The three men killed were t hrown 140 feet away and lay side by side. The bodies were not much mutilated. ’ Important Decision. The Supreme Court of the United states through Justice Blatrhfori has decided that a person injured-partly through his qwn negligence is not debarred from recovering damages. The ease a which the decision was rendered was that of the steamer Max Morris appelate vs. Patrick Curry, v/lio was injured while loading th<*. vessel by falling through a hole. Cnrry a ■ Anarchists Can't Talk in Cincinnati. Herr Most having arranged for an Anarchist, meeting at Cincinnati, the Mayor ihas decided to not permit a mcet ng for that purpose, and threatens to revoke the liceii'seYf the hall if his orc l rs are not obeyed. The Anarchists made no attempt to y.i.jd a .meeting. -He rr Most did not, even come to the half. The threats of t ire Mayor to break up tiny ’ such .meet:'iff by police interference pi’OVCCI .e.lfcef Ita I. & Thirty Persons Killed anil Forty Injured. A rail way .i rain from Asknb.oii which here v.a large number of- soldiers, vjhosc term'-of service had expired, and vho were on their way to their homes, ■■fas derail'd near Salonica. Turkey. , iihirty persons,were killed and fotty injured. The accident was caused by the. ■.ashing out of the track by recent 1 rtn v rain'. . t —' Abject Poverty in Ireland. Col. Turner has just returned from a ! sit, to the <ij<trictof’ Skibberecn. Ireland which Mr. Balfour was prevented by 1,11i' ss from visiting on his recent tour. He, ’ gives a very gloomy report >f rhe conilition of the district. The inhabitants, he says, are for the most part in a state of Abject poverty, especially 'n Schull, where th<-greatest destitution prevails.. ' „ Peace Made-at Last. The final treaty of peace between Sam Salvador and Guatemala, was signed at jtihe capatal of 'Guatemala. The autonomy ind independence of both republics is guaranteed arid the principle of nort-in-terfcarancn rn.a<le public, Bold Bobbery. The United States Express Company was ’robbed of a money package containing Sl.ooo at. Tipton, ' id. Elmer jJVleekcr, the agent, received the package i from the messenger <>f the uorth-bound train, and was leaving his office when he was attacked by a masked man. Meeker ’) was knocked -ensejess, his keys to the safe taken and the money package secured. Meeker regained consciousness, before the. robber departed and opened fire on him without, effect. The, thief returned the lire, and seriously injured the Agent's right hand. There s no clue to the robber. •" ■ => , EASTERN OCCURRENCES. “Take that inscription down; you can’t keep it up here, exclaimed Police ('apt. McCullough at the anarchistic 1 dcirionstration at Coope* Union, New York. The Captain . painted with his dub to a red banner tinder the speaker’s desk, on which in white letters was inscribed, “if yi>u assault us with galling guns we will use dynamite on you.” A number of anarchists protested against the order and made some hisses, but the Captain remained firm and the banner came down. The meeting was to keep fresh the memory of the Chicago An-

archists. It was the largest ever held in New York, Ten sergeants and 100 policemen were on hand. The platform was crowded with the leading red lights of anarchy. Lucy Parsons was introduced and made her usual speech. John Most gave one of his characteristic yawps, whiqh was wildly applauded. While the McKinley tariff bill was pending in Congress and immediately after it became a law many mannfactqrers of Pittsburg. Pa., announced their intention of going into the manufacture of tin-plate. It was stated that at least $25,000,000 would be invested in the new industry in that city and vicinity. Interviews with the firms who had made these statements reveal the fact that they have about all changed their minds. Only two firms, the United States Iron and Steel Company and P. H. Laufman & Co. will go into the manufacture of tin-plate and that on a small scale. Pittsburgh manufacturers say there will be nothing certain about the tariff now until after the election of 1892, and that they cannot afford to invest millions on a chance. They charge ’that the remarkable advance in the cost of tinned plates last month was due , to a combination between importers, who were interested in disgusting the public with the new tariff. A member of Carnegie Bros. & Co., speaking of the matter, said: “There is no doubt that prospects for the new building of tinned-plate mills at Pittsburg and other points had .good foundation. The result of last Tuesday’s election,.a big Democratic Congress and a -Senate very possibly Democratic on the subject of the tariff would, of course, throw cold water on such prospects.” WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Mrs. Weldon, of Brooklyn, the woman lately made famous through reports of her love match with Sitting Bull, has arrived at Pierre. S. I). Mrs. Weldon said that Sitting Bull is now loading the messiah craze with such effect that the Indians have one and all disavowed all friendship with the whites and are i hourly expecting the arrival of their new | messiah, when they will at once come I •into possession of the earth. Emissaries ; from this new Christ have appeared I among the various tribes during the past | week, who announced that the fime was ■ now very close for the grand event. Their superstition has taken hold of them with a strange and ardent fervor. They now refuse to let white men approach the places where they are holding their religious ceremonies. General Ruger, of the Department of Dakota, on the contrary, says the craze is dying out. C. W. Noyes, inventor of the famous road cart of that name, died in the asylum at Kalamazoo. Mich., being driven mad by financial troubles. Mortimer Ei baxk>. the old man who was arrested at Mitehell, Lid., as an accomplice in the brutal murder of his I daughter Mary, has made a confession. | He says the crime was committed by his son. Bee Eubanks, about midnight Sunday night. He says Bee had been quarreling with his sister, and that at the time mentioned he seized a club and began beating her with it. He claims that he attempted to prevent his son from murdering his sister, but being old and feeble he was unable to do so. Eubanks, the father, is over 70 years of age. Bee Eubanks is a man of 35, of bad reputation and dangerous when drunk. Jacob Stroebel, a farmer, drank a pint of Whisky on a wager at Saginaw, Mich., and dropped dead a few minutes after. Settlers on the farms and ranches south of Mandan. N. li. are fleeing from their homes, believing that an Indian uprising is near at hand. They urgently demand protection, and many a farmhouse in North Dakota will soon be deserted unless the settlers receive some assurance that they will not be left to the mercy of the. murderous redskins, who are now whetting their knives in anticipation of the moment, when they may begin their bloody work. The Indians are trading their horses and all other property for guns and ammunition, and will be well prepared wheif the outbreak comes. Mandan hardware meji have sold ail their ammunition To them. Joseph Buckley, just in from the reservation, says the Indian Agents are harboring a feeling of false security, and that the danger will be realized when it is too late,J The Mayor of Mandan has called a public meeting, and the Government will he petitioned for gjms to arm the citizens. The Indians say they will haje- everything to gain and nothing to lose by an uprising. If they are.bcaten their rations will -he doubled, as in the pa«tt. Buckley says every Indian on the reser- i vation will shortly go on the warpath and that tlrey ha vs? got possession of t nster’s rilles, which the United States army has.never found. «. The specter of .the Farmers' Alliance overshadows all other political considerations at Washington, (.’lever politicians estimate rite vote polled by that organization in the recent election at not le.ss than ?.50o,(R)O. The Alliance people tlu nisolxes are not saying anything that, can be construed as an indication of their future purposes. The expectation is that their party will increase so rapidly during the next txyo years that their voting strength in isfej will not fall much, if any. short of five million. In that event they will undoubtedly place a Presidential ticket in the field with a moral certainty of carrying half a dozen Southern and Western States. N THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Tx an interview in Washington Senator Sherman said: “The most serious result, of the late election is the hardening of the times caused by the. distrust of the financial policy of the incoming House of Representatives. All sorts of financial schemes of the wiltjest character will ho proposed, and whatever may be the outcome they will make capital timid and arrest many business enterprises that are on the point of being Bexeciited. Our only course as Republicans is to maintain and strengthen our industrial policy on the line we have pursued, in the hope that by the next election the people will be convinced by the test of time that the ,tariff will not advance prices, but will advance home industries. ” POLITICAL PORRIDGE. The Hon. W. S. Morris, kite Dj>moratio candidate for Congress in the Twentieth Illinois District, will contest Smith's right, to the seat. He claims to have proof that several hundred Votes Cast for Lawrence, the I nion-Labor candidate, were counted for Smith. Maj. A R. Ax'dehson, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Eighth (Iowa) District, who - was defeated by Flick, Republican, by 117 majority, states that he will contest Flick’s election, ’</ ■ The St. Paul Ej/r names Gov. Merriam for Vice President on the ticket with Mr7Blaine in 1892, because Minnesota's Governor is the only Republican from a leading State who survived the avalanche of Nov. 4. A sfecial canvass of the Now Hampshire State returns shows that Hiram A. Tuttle, R., recelvea 42,472; Charles H. Amsden, D., 42,372; Prohibition. 1,305; giving Tuttle a plurality of 100. No

returns from Wentworth were but this will not change the result ten votes either way. A majority is re-i quired to elect, so the Legislature will have to be the final arbiter in the matter. The Senate will stand fourteen Republicans and ten Democrats. FOREIGN GOSSIP. A republican manifesto signed by 121 students of the Coimbra University has been issued in Lisbon, Portugal. Prof. Koch’s great discovery of a cure for consumption is attracting great attention in the medical world. His method is to inoculate the patient with lymph, the preparation of which is his secret. “Professor Koch holds supreme sway over public interest in Berlin. The publication of the Professor’s statement has intensified the excitement both in Berlin and abroad, and from every center of Europe and America telegrams of inquiry are pouring in on Koch, Pfuhl. Cornel. Bergmann, and the other mediieal men who are known to be engaged in treating patients by the new method. . Many medical men, including a number ■of English and American physicians, have been studying the process under Dr. Levy in the small wards of a private hospital. Here, since October, eight prominent cures of consumptives have ! oeen in progress. Dr. Levy every morning shows his patients to the visiting physicians, and illustrates the peculiar features of the new method as visible in individual cases. Addressing a group of physicians in his private laboratory, Dr. Levy said: “The remedy not only attacks particular places and groups of bacilli, but rapidly annihilates all tuberculosis bacilli, with which bodies are infested. We now know th'at the curative matter acts equally upon all gronps. The first cant is to free the organism from baccilli. To attain this end we apply massage at an early stage of the treatment to the glands, joints, etc., affected by tuberculosis in order to force the bacilli which have encased themselves, in cysts into the blood channels, where we can retorc easily reach them than when they are in those parts where the circulation has little influence. ” The great house of Baring Brothers, of London, the largest banking house in the world, and whose stability has been considered second only to that of the Bank of England itself, has narrowly escaped ruin. The impending failure of this great house, vaguely rumored, had unsettled the money markets of the world for a. week, and when the annduncement camo that the Barings had -been obliged to seek the assistance of the Bank of England to keep them from ruin, a panic set in in the financial centers both of Europe and America. In New York stocks of every kind went plunging down .to the lowest level reached for a long time, and on the Chicago Board of Trade wheat and all other speculative products took a dive toward the bottom. What had really happened to the great house of Baring Brothers, a house that had withstood the financial storms of a century, was this: For the last five or six years the Barings have been investing heavily in the securities of the Argentine Republic. The revolution in that country last summer naturally caused a great shrinkage in the value of its securities. So heavily loaded was the great London house with their bonds that when it became necessary to raise ready money it was impossible to do sq. A failure must have occurred had not the Bank of England and several private banks in London come to the rescue with a guarantee fund of $55,000,100 to prevent the threatened smash. The failure of the Barings would have precipitated a panic in Europe and America such as has not been known for many years. The total liabilities of the firm are estimated at $105,000,000, while the assets, at present prices, are valued at $120,ooaooo. TJhe Turkish Government has sent 3.000 troops to Tripoli and is increasing the armaments of the forts. These precautions are due to fears concerning the designs of Italy upon Tripoli. FRESH AND N EWSY. At the meeting of Southern cotton goods manufacturers, in session at Charlotte, N. C., it has been determined to form a combination for the enhancement of the price of cotton fabrics. R. G. Dux & Co.’s weekly review of i trade says: Those who have long expected severe reaction on the stock market have now seen the average of prices thrown back to a lower point than has been touched at any other time for more than four years. It remains the fact that the legitimate business throughout the country is the largest ever ! known, not much inflated or endangered by ■ speculation, and so far complaints in regard j to collections have been much fewer than i usual. The check now sustained may not I improbably produce some shrinkage in | transactions and di .linution of profits, ! but the industrial and commercial conditions have been so favorable that speculative distcrbances are the less likely to affect general business seriously. Report; from other cities show that at most points the events in Wall street have little or nq effect as yet. At Chicago money is active at 7 per cent., but country banks are sending in funds for investment, Eastern disturbances are little felt; grain and cured meat- equal last year’s; a slight loss is seen in dresseiUieef. butter, and cheese, and a. heavy 10-pj j n hides, but a liberal gain in I wool and Mlard, while trade in dry goods, clothing.' and shoes; is much larger, with satisfactory irollectii n- No other Western point, shows disturbance in trade, though money is generally close. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle-Qommon to Prime¥3.2s @ 5.50 Hbus Shipping Grades ASC @ 4.00 She bp 3.00 @ 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 92h>@ .93 Corn—No. 2 49 ,49’j Oats—No. 2 .41 <3 .42' Rte—No. 2 66 ,67 Better—ChoicA Creamery 215 @ .2H Chkf.se—Foil Cream, fiats 08'i <n .091 J | Eggs—Fresh 22 (tn .23 Potatoes — Western per bußs @ .90 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.50 <» 4.50 Hogs—Choice Light 3.0 J @ 4.00 Sheep—common to Prime 3.00 i«» 4.50 Wheat—Nq. 2 Red .98 @ .9l> Corn —No. 1 White.s4 <{9 .55 Oats—No. 2 White’ .48 & ,48'<; ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.00 & 5.00 Bogs 3.50 (<5 4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red .92 & -93 Corn—No. 2 ,50'A Oats—No. 2 46 .47 ' Rye—No. 271 & .72 CINCINNATI. Cattie.... 2.00 « 4.25 Hogh 3.00 @ 4.00 Sheep 3.00 ifS 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 97 @ -.98 Corn No. 2 54JA.® .55'i Oats- -No. 2 Mixed 49 *@ .50 " MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 80' 8 ® .90'4 Corn—No. 3 .53 (SS .54' Oats—No. 2 White 46L.(?4 ,<7!4 Rye-No. 1...68 'c<9* > .70 ' Barley—No. 2...70 ej .71 DETROIT. Cattle 3.C0 @ 4.25 I Hogs 3.00 & 3.50 Sheep .< 3.00 tat 4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Red. .96 @ .97 Corn-No. 2 Yellow .50 tof .53J* Oats— No. 2 White........48’..@ .49 TOLEDO. Wheat .94 @ .95 Corn—Cashs3 (<9 .54 Oats—No. 2 White3s>£@ BUFFALO. Cattle—Good to Prime 4.00 @ 4.75 Hogs—Medium and Heavy...... 4.00 <<4 4.25 Wheat—No. 1 Hard J. 07 c<4 I.OH Corn—No >55 & .56 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Common to Prime 3.50 © 4.50 Bogs—Light.; 3.75 ® 4.25 Sheep—Medium to Good 4.00 & 5.25 lambs 4.50 & 6.25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3.50 @ 5.00 Hogs 3.75 & 4.2> Sheep 4.00 & 5.50 Wheat -No. 2 Red LOl (9 1.02 Corn-No. 2.57 A .» Oats— Mixed Western4» 0 M

NEWSOFOUK OWN STATE WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN INDIANA THE PAST WEEK. Killed While Bunting*—Muncie to Have a New Opera House—Fired Buckshot Into a Toll-House—A New Bank—Scarlet Fever Epidemic at Bedford. —Marion is to have a new iron-mill. -—Muncie is to have a new opera-house to cost $40,000. —Mason N. Haile died of heart disease at Brookvjllc. —Chas. Love, of Osgood, fell from a fence and broke his leg. —Two toughs had a prize fight at Fort Wayne, and one had a finger broken. —Five persons died suddenly of heart disease in Orange County in one week. —The prowing wheat is said to be looking better this season than ever before. —Charles Flack, of Sliawnetown, 111,, was killed at Evansville by falling down stairs. —William Harris, a brakeman qn the Lake Shore Road, was killed by the cars at Goshen. 4 —George Eyers, a pioneer of Elkhart County, aged 75 years, died at his home near Bristol. —George Taylor, while hunting near Tipton, was seriously injured by the explosion of a gun. —Several children were injured in a panic in a school house at Muncie, duer to an alarm of fire. —E. B. Ramsey, of Burkett, section foreman of the Nickle Plate, was badlymangled by a train. —Samuel M. Archer, a banker widely known throughout the State, died at his home in Evansville. —Henry Lovely wasecaught by falling slate in the Buckeye inine, at Cannelburg, and crippled for life. —Daniel Rotnberger has sued Dr. L. J. Willen. of Terre for SIO,OOO damages, for alleged malpractice. —Will Currie, an Osg«od accidently shot himself in the side while hunting. His injuries are not fatal. —A new M. E. Church-, will be dedicated at Fairmount on December 1. The building is under course of construction now. —Miss Kate Yunker. of Mount Vernon, took a snap shot at a burglar entering the house, and got the end of his nose. —Near Fort Wayne Miss Ida Snyder was shot And killed by Albert Shurt, a discarded;suitor, who then committed suicide. —Frank Shunk died of lockjaw at Now Albany. He ran a nail into his foot some weeks ago, but the wound had healed up. —At the home of Lafayette Elliot, six miles east of Columbus, John M. Gould, aged 24 years, djed of heart disease while asleep. —Messrs Lockridge, of Greencastle, sold to a New York firm for export, a bunch of cattle weighing an average of 1,700 pounds. H. H. Alfrey & Co., of Terre Haute, will establish a heading factory at Greencastle, that will give employment to seventy-five hands. —James Bryce, the little son of Sheriff Alexander Bryce, of Owen County, injured by a train at Spencer, died of his wounds. —John Rorck, a biacksmith at Jeffersonville, has fallen heir to $50,000, ’left by an uncle in Germany, of whose existence he was unaware. —A freight train on the Panhandle was wrecked four miles east of' Richmond. Fifteen cars were smashed and the track was torn up for 100 feet. —The heirs of Horace M. Wright, of Fort Wayne, were awarded a judgment for $4,000 against Allen County. Wright was killed by the breaking of a bridge in that county. —lndiana's quails are in small danger of being Annihilated, but at the rate the reports of hunting accident’s are coming in the race of Nimrods is likely to be exterminated. —Two fire-engines collided at a street corner in Evansville. Fireman Conners was injured, the horses were badly crippled and the engines .considerably smashed up. —WilliamMauchamer, a farmer living south,of Anderson, was kicked in the forehead by’ a vicious horse and death ensued in a short time. His skull was horribly crushed. j -—Mrs. Miller, of Moore's Hill, who last summer charged the management of the Central Insane Asylum with cruelty, has been again arrested and will be returned to the institution. —Congressman Brookshire announces that there will be a competitive examination for appointment to West Point some tifne'in December, to be held either at Terre Haute or Crawfordsville. —Jn Union Township, Adams County, John G.. Sheets was stricken with paralysis while shingling a barn. His fel-low-workman nailed his clothing to the roof while he went for assistance. —Suit has been entered in the Montgomery Circuit Court against the I.,St. L. & K. C. Railroad to recover the value of the hide of a cow that was killed by the cars, and whose hide was secured by the station agent. *’ —At Mitchell, Miss Mary Eubanks died from the effects of blows administered by a drunken brother. —Frank Robertson, aged 19. com» mitted suicide by shooting himself, at his home, near Westville. Dissipation had caused despondency. —-A child of Rev. H. P. Corey, the Presbyterian minister, of Greencastle, was playing around some burning leaves, when his dress caught fire, burning one side of his body to a blister. The injury is regarded as serious, though not, fatal. —Burglars robbed the money drawer in George Cooms’ saloon at Jeffersonville, and set fire to the building. The damage amounted to SSOO. —A shocking accident occurred at the home of John Kauffman, who lives in Lafayette. The family was at supper, when the little thirteen-months-old son pulled the tablecloth so far as to upset a cup of boiling water over his face and breast, a portion of the boiling liquid going into the mouth of the little one. The child lingered for some hours, but death at last relieved it from its terrible agony.

—A newfbank was organized at Elizabethtown, Bartholomew County. It is to be known as the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank. Edward Springer will be president. . —Burglars, made a raid on the grocery establishment of A. H. Benham, of Wabash. Smoked meats, a number of small articles and money of an aggregate value of S3O were taken. No clew. —The Advent Christian Church at Jeffersonville, was imposed upon by a clerical fraud from Topeka, advertising himself as Elder J. J. Austin, who obtained the pulpit of the church by means of forged credentials. —The Bedford Board of Health has ordered the School Board to close the public schools indefinitely on account of the scarlet fever. Two deaths have occurred and several other cases are reported. y —Henry Hooten, aged 85 years, and one of the early settlers of Morgan County, was almost totally paralyzed, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Alexander Stewart. Owing to his extreme age he cannot recover. : —John Lobdeff who, for over fifty years, has been a resident of Wabash County, died at his home near E a f° n * tame, aged 81 years, of Bright’s disease. He was considered one of the most prominent farmers of the county. —For thirty years Hendricks county has had no saloon within its borders. Last week a notice of an application for license was published, and the citizens are fully aroused to*defeat the effort. An indignation meeting was called, when active steps were taken to defeat the project. —Miss Lain a Burns, of Martinsville, has probably longest hair of any woman in this country. It is over seven feet long, very heavy and of a light brown color. The lady is live feet three inches in height and when standing erect her hair falls to'the floor and forms a trail two feet in length. —The third annual convention of the Indiana Christian Endeavor Union, held at Evansville, elected the following officers: W. J. Lewis, of Evansville, president; Rev. A. C. Hathaway, of Richmond. vice president, and Miss Bettie M. Wishard. of Indianapolis, secretary and treasurer. Kokomo was selected for the next place of meeting. —William Osborne, aged 69 years, while walking westward on the dinkey track at Jeffersonville, was struck by a train near the J., M. & I. bridge till, and instantly killed. The trainmen were unable to stop the engine after discovering that Osborne failed to heed the signal. Osborne resided with his son, Finley P. Osborne, at Ohio Falls. —While hunting near his home, three miles from New Albany, Charles Edwards, aged 1$ years, was shot in the ann by the discharge of one barrel of his sun while he was loading the other. The flesh was almost entirely torn from the member between the hand and elbow, and fears are entertained that his injury will prove fatal, as lock-jaw may supervene. —A. R. Brattin has brought suit at Greencastle against the Westchester Fire Insurance Company to compel the payment of the insurance due on his property, which was destroyed by fire last August. Mt. Brattin’s tenant had vacated the dwelling temporarily, but did not remove his household goods, and the company contend that the policy was thus forfeited. The house was insured for $2,800. —Hon. William D< Robinson, the founder of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who has been ill for several months, died at his home at Washington of cancer of the stomach. He was sixty years of age. Engineer Robinson was one of the oldest railroad men in the United States. He run one of the first through trains between Cincinnati and St. Louis on the Ohio & Mississippi, ond was in the employment of this company for thirty years. —ls no bad luck befalls the young son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bennett,’ of Anderson. he will no doubt become a rival of Hanson E. Craig, the Danville fat man., The youngster is now five months old, and oil account of his phenomenal growth is the wonder of all the women of Anderson. He now weighs eighty pounds. When born he was an average baby and weighed abouFten pounds. He has been gaining since his birth on an average twelve pounds per month. The baby is in excellent health and is perfect in 1 eyery respect. —The Board of Trustees V>f the Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors' Monument met at Indianapolis. General Toni Bennett, of Richmond: General M. D. Manson? of Crawfbrsville, and George W. Langsdale, of Greencastle, being present. The Board heard excuses from the Terre Hgute Stone Company for failure to furnish material in such quantities as should have enabled the Commission nTeoinplete the monument by the first of this month; It was promised that there should be no further delays in the matter of furnishing stone. It is now stated that the monument will be ready for unveiling next Auzust. The last of the heavy stone, weighing six tons, has been laid. The work from /this time on will be lighter, and ttjp-'peopieof Indiana will be •pluasiilMtUTearii that there are to be no more exasperating delays. —The grocery store of David Lee, at Crawfordsville, was entered by thieves the other night and a few articles and some pennies secured. This makes almost a dozen times this store has been robbed in the past few years. —George C. Crowell, one of the wealthy men of Peru, was thrown from a buggy, while suffering from heart trouble, receiving a fractured skull and other injuries from which death will result. He is aged 73, and was one of the first merchants in Miami county. —The first contracts for the construction of the new buildings of the Indiana Steel Company has been let, at Wabash. There will in all be five structures, the dimensions averaging 90x112 feet. Work on the mill will begin this week, and it is hoped to have the buildings under roof by February 1. The capacity of the establishment will be sixty tons pf steel per day, instead of fifty tons as originally contemplated. —Some would-be assassin fired two of buckshot through the door of a toll-house in Fayette County, occupied by Marion Peyton and family.

BIRCHALL’S DEBT PAID. EXECUTED IN THE PRISON AT WOODSTOCK, ONT. & History of tbe Crime for Which Ho Paid the Extreme Penalty of the Law—the Murderer Leavesa Written Statement — No Untoward Scenes at the Gallows. [Woodstock (Ont.) dispatch.] Reginald Birchall expiated on the gallows the murder of his friend Benwell at 8:39 o’clock yesterday morning. His last night on earth was passed, until a late hour, in the company of his wife. The last words spoken by Birchall were t<x, the hangman. He said: “Have you any objections to shaking hands with me?” “Certainly not,” replied the executioner, and the last hand-shake followed. The Woodstock Sentinel-Review publishes the following letter from Birchall. which had been sent to that office with instructions that it was not to be printed until after his execution: Woodstock Jail. Nov. 10. If after my death there shall appear in the press or in any other manner whatsoever any confession that I had any hand in the murder of F. C. Benwell or any previous knowledge of said murder, with intent or malice aforethought, or any personal connection with the. murder on the 17th of February, or other day. or any knowledge that any such murder was likely to be committid, or any statement further, than any that I may have made public previous to this date. I hand this statement to the care of George Perry, of Woodstock, Ont., that he may know that any confession or partial confessions are entirely fictitious and in no way were eVer written by me, neither emanated from me in any way whatsoever to any person, and the whole are fictitious and without a word of truth. This likewise applies to my story in the Mail', in which I have made no such confession or partial confession. This is to be good throughout. Reg. Birchall. BirchaH’s body was buried in tbe jail yard soon after the verdict was reached. Thus ends the story of Birchairs crime and expiation. STORY OF THE CRIME. John Reginald Birchall was born at. a place called Church, in Lancashire. England. where his father was the Protestant

rector, a little over twenty-five years ago. His father wealthy. and died in 1878. leaving his three sons and one daughter well provided for. Re g i nald. as lie was called, was the youngest son. and scon got rid of his He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and led a fast life while a student. In the pursuit of his antecedents the detectives found at every step evidence that his

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associates, almost from the moment he was trusted about alone, were of evil character. In 1888 Birchall married the .daughter of David Stephenson. General Traffic Manager of the London and Northwestern Railroad. The young woman's family were opposed to the match, but she finally eloped with him. The couple went to Woodstock, Canada. A peace was patched up between Birchall and his wife’s parents, and in the spring of 1889 the couple returned to England and lived in Mr. Stephenson's house at Upper Norwood road, London. Birchall secured employment with a firm of photographers in London. In London Birchall continued to lead a fast life and he was soon at his wit’s end for money. It was during this period that the scheme which resulted in tbe murder of Benwell was concocted. The first step in the crime was the insertion in the pipers of the following advertisement: CtANADA — UNIVERSITY MAN HAVING farm wishes to meet gentleman's son to live with him and learn the business with view to partnership; must have £SOO to extend stock; board, lodging and 5 per cent, interest till partnership arranged; highest references. Many replies were received to the advertisement. but only two of them received

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attention from Birch* all. These were from Douglas Raymond Pelly. of Walden place, Saffron Walden, Essex, and Frederick C. Benwell. son of Lieutenant Colonel Benwell. o 1 Iseultdene, Cheltenli am. Pel I y was i n poor health, and had been recommended by his physician tc live an outdoor life. Birchall wrote to hit:

and to the Benwells, father and son. dati his letters from the Junior Constitution and National Conservative clubs. London. Birchall made frlenffs with both, and impressed them with his candor and apparent honesty. The story he invented to entrap his dupes was that he had a large farm a mile and a half from Niagara Falls on which there , was a large brick house, heated by steam ,=and lighted by gas. and large barns lighted by electricity. He made it appear that his business was the buying of horses in tbe rough and grooming them so that they could lie sold at a profit. The feed for the horses was raised on the farm. He also made it appear that he was interested in business at Woodstock, and that there were a number of Englishmen there .who were organized in a club. 4 Pelly was captivated by Birchall’s manner and uelighted with the prospect held out to him. He entered into an agreement

with Birchall by which he was to pay him SBSO. In retprn he was to have board and •lodging at the farm and receive 22}.; per cent, of the profits of the business. A check for SBSO was sent to Birchall. Having got “vpossession of this money the schemer induced, the elder Benwell to let his son Frederick go with hint to see the farm, with

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the understanding that if he liked' it he was ' to pay $2.54)1) for a half interest in it. On I Feb. 5, Mr. and Mrs. Birchall. Benwell and Pelly sailed from Liverpool on the Britannic. reached New York Feb., 14. and registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. On the following Saturday they left on the Erie Railroad for Buffalo. It was derided that Birchall and Benwell should go on the 6 o’clock train the next morning to the Falls and prepare for the reception of Pelly and Mrs. Birchall. Birchall came buck the following night alone. He said that Benwell didn't like the farm or the people and that he refused positively to stay there. Birchall said he hacFgiven him the addresses of people further on in the country and started him off to see if he could find a place he liked. He told Pelly that he wasn’t ready to go to the farm, for McDonald, his superintendent, bad rented the place to some tenants and that things were in a bad shape. His suggestion that they go on to Niagara Falls and wait a few days was accepted. On Tuesday.. Feb. 18, Birchall. bls wife and Pelly went to 4Tifton. Ont., just across the Niagara River from Suspension Bridge. Birehall and Pelly stopped at a boarding house, while Mrs. BirchaU lived at the Imperial Hotel. A week was spent there. Pelly all the time fretting at the delay and Birchall calming him with plausible stories. Among other falsehoods he saiil that he had received a letter from Benwell inclosing the receipt for Ben well’s bonded luggage and requesting that it be sent him when he wanted it. The first bad break made by Birehall was on Feb. 28. when he showed Pelly a copy of a New York newspaper containing an account of the finding of Benwell’s lody in the tamarack swamp on William Hersey’s farm in Princeton. Ont. The cigar case-with the name “F. U. Benwell” on it proved beyond a doubt whose body it was. Birehall said he would go at once and see the body, and Pelly instantly said that he would accompany him. In about an hour Birchall showed Pelly a telegram which he said he had received from the clerk of the Stafford House at Buffalo. It stated that Benwell had gone to New York, and requested that his luggage be sent to him there at the Fifth Avonue Hotel. Pelly started at once for New York and Birchall went to Princeton and made his second blunder in identifying the body of Benwell. He was arrested and locked up. A day or so later his wife was also a prisoner. - ’

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